Does anyone really, really love their job? Or do you just do it to pay bills and get to the weekend? I'm curious how many people actually truly love what they do

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I love that I can put a nice roof over my family’s heads, food in their stomachs, and provide them a higher standard of living then I had growing up.
I love I can travel to interesting places and eat at pricey restaurants occasionally and indulge in some expensive hobbies like skiing.
I do not love my job. I don’t even like it. I’m pretty good at it, oddly. Which is lucky. Because it pays well. And I love being paid.

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My sentiments exactly.

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People who genuinely love any job in marketing or advertising need therapists.

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I used to love advertising.

The US industry is killing that. I am thinking on moving back to Europe.

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I feel like Australian advertising culture is way better than ours here in the US. Let’s move.

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I love it. I make half bitter jokes w my peers so I don’t look crazy. But ultimately I’d rather do this than so many other droll, punishing, tedious things.

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I'm dead inside.

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I love the advertising industry, but the U.S. political system is killing it. Trickle down economics doesn't work. Salaries in our industry in 2021 are identical to what we were making in 1991. And you wonder why you can't make ends meet.

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R/GA 2: I do the same job as my first agency boss. I’m currently paid the same as he was in 1993.

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I don’t really like it but I imagine I would like most other jobs even less

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I used to love it. Maybe I’m just jaded now due to being in it for a decade… or politics/agency life crushed it

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I REALLY love my job but I’m starting to realize I could probably do the same type of work outside of advertising and be OK (maybe even better?) but I don’t want to leave a creative environment… yet I want more money… v conflicted

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It’s professional services.

If you see it as part of a longer path, the bad days become part of the process.

If you get lost in it, it’s sales and you’ll hate it unless you love sales.

I think it’s the best fake job there is.

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I love what I do; but after (just) 12 years, I’m kind of exhausted. If I financially did not need to work, I’d leave and never look back.

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I'd probably like it a lot better if I were paid a lot better.

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I love the things that my job provides me…

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I love my salary and that I get to earn it doing this sort of work. I feel very lucky overall. But if I wasn't paid well I'd quit

I loved it and then I hated it for so long. Then I found my current gig - which is a different niche in the ad world and I honestly never care if I go back to a traditional agency.

It’s a little bit of both. Depends on the day.

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